Google+ Pages Dashboards Now Link to Google Analytics

Google Analytics advocate Daniel Waisberg took to Google+ yesterday to announce a new feature that adds Google Analytics information to the dashboard of your organization’s Google+ page.

Simply put, if your company’s Google+ page links back to your website and your site also uses Google Analytics, a Google+ card will appear in your dashboard, showing the number of new visits, unique visitors and pageviews for your the site linked to that page. The data is for the prior 30 days of visits and includes percent change from the previous 30-day period:

Other cards typically found on an Google+ Page dashboard include Notifications specific to that page, Business insights on your website’s reach and discovery on Google Search and Maps, and general business information about your page.

The Analytics card is short and sweet. Outside of the three metircs and percent change, there’s only a link to Google Analytics that takes you directly into that site’s report, regardless of how many sites you have connected.

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